Videos doesn't play in Front Row photos slideshows...

Well that's a really annoying problem that I was hoping it would be fixed in Snow Leopard, but IT DIDN'T!
When you are in iphoto and select an album ( which contains photos & videos) for slideshow..everything is fine!
In contrast to this, when you select the same album in front row for slideshow, the videos don't play and instead of this you get a black screen.
I have tried this to many machines in Applestores and all behave exactly the same

Fouster - you seem alone, but you're not.
I just bought a new Mac Mini to set up as my HTPC (if it passes the wife test..!). I settled on Front Row over Plex for now, since the latter still feels half baked/overly ambitious. When I came to setting up the Photo part, I got the exact same problem you are describing. Nothing but blackness, where video clips should play, and for what seems to be the duration of the actual clip. iPhoto plays them beautifully. What gives?
I have seen other threads where this question got archived without a fix or even a response.
Someone seemed to have fixed it by removing QT7 Pro properly since there was some conflict with QTX. I have a mint Mini, so shouldn't be my issue.
Maybe it has to do with some obscure CODEC missing in QT - I have Perian and Flip4Mac installed but will try further using this link:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html
I'll keep you posted. This is some moral support for now.
Scubadane

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